PlanetSide2.com has a countdown timer at about two days and counting, and a new PlanetSide 2 Facebook Page saves us any math issues by promising an announcement on July 7 (Thursday) at 7:00 pm PDT. The meta description on the website offers more: "PlanetSide 2 is the only first person shooter that delivers truly epic, massive combat on a scale never before seen in stunning, breathtaking detail. Be a part of explosive action in a futuristic world with forces ranging from tactical squads to thousand player armies all taking place in real-time on enormous open-world continents." Thanks PlanetSide Universe.

Even 100 vs 100 is better than the current crop of FPS shit out there. Hell, 50 vs 50 is a strech.

Planetside's biggest flaw was that it was made without content updates in mind. I remember the devs saying it was a bitch to even change small stuff in the game.

I played again recently when SOE gave free access because of the hacking. It still had some small bugs, some going back all the way to its release in 2003, but the game is still fun. You can't say the same thing about many other 8yr old games.

Unless SOE totally fucks up the sequel (which is VERY possible) I'll definatly be playing the shit out of this when it's out.

Original Planetside was what...100-150 per side, maybe 300-400 tops in a zone before it turned people away? They never got it to play smooth or reliably stable when a zone was full and they bunched up when it was in the open terrain zones with all the vehicles and what not.

They need to put out actual info, videos, and screenshots about this game. All we've seen so far is hype, and historically with SOE and hype you end up with half a broken game and a lot of promises at launch. And a broken but kind of working game when they finally give up and take back all of those promises.

And then crap out an expansion with another handful of promises that they never really get around to.